Eileen Atkins

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‘Vita & Virginia’, starring Gemma Arterton and Elizabeth Debicki as Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf.
Vita & Virginia: A tale of literary lovers fails to make waves

Here we have a film torn between brave experiment and on-after-Lovejoy heritage telly. The source material gestures in the safer direction. Chanya But(...)

Oscar season in Toronto: Lady Gaga in A Star Is Born
Oscars 2019: My money’s on Lady Gaga and ‘A Star Is Born’

It was a very special edition of Toronto International Film Festival for the Irish director Carmel Winters. At the screening of Float Like a Butterfly(...)

Michael Moore returns to his hometown of Flint and looks into the extraordinary capitalist banditry that led to the poisoning of the city’s water supply.
Michael Moore blasts Trump in new Fahrenheit 11/9 documentary

It seems as if we’ve been complaining about Michael Moore preaching to the converted since he turned up to pester Benedict Arnold for betraying the Re(...)

Tracey Ullman as Michael Gove on Tracey Ullman Breaks the News. Photograph: BBC
On TV this weekend: Ethan Hawke, Gino D’Acampo and Tracey Ullman

The Graham Norton Show Friday, BBC One, 23.05pm The guests on Graham’s sofa are Ethan Hawke, who stars in First Reformed, Toni Collette, starring in(...)

Medium dry: Emma Stone and Colin Firth in Magic in the Moonlight
Magic in the Moonlight review: Woody does it again – unfortunately

It’s 1928 and the master illusionist Wei Ling Soo enjoys an international reputation as a disappearer of elephants and debunker of mystics. Followi(...)

Colin Farrell: “Lothario! There’s a nice word for a slut. Imagine what they’d say if I was a woman”

‘I’ve been at home in Los Angeles for the past two months with nothing on but the two kids,” says Colin Farrell as he stretches into his chair. “He(...)